EVERYTHING REVEALEDTwelve years ago Amanda Lane fled her small town, and the man she loved. She changed her life in Chicago, and found a new family with Burlesque A La Mode. Now on tour, the troupe is performing near her former home, and her past walks in looking better than he ever did.Mike Nichols never understood why Amanda left him, and his heart has never recovered since she ran away. Now, watching her take off her clothes in his crowded club, he wants to drag her off ...

A YOUNG MAN'S FANCYDavid – M. TasiaDumped and depressed, David flees town to work on remodeling a lake house for the summer without telling his best friend, Jacob. But best friends don't leave each other hanging, and Jacob's been missing David. Uninvited, but welcome at the lake house, Jacob engineers a hat-trick of surprises that just might change both their futures.No Bunny Like You – Susan Mac NicolColin's neighbor is so freakin' delicious, he positions h...

WINTER BREAKOliver – M. TasiaWill doesn't want to be tutored, even though he knows he needs it. He has to maintain his grades to keep his scholarship to USC. He's so not feeling the condescension coming from his tutor, Oliver, but he has to admit, the dude's into what he's doing and he's smart. What Will didn't expect was to be into Oliver.Family Ties – Emily MimsTexas A&M is huge and the chance Brody would run into Lemar next semester are slim to none. They s...

THIS IS A STANDALONE NOVELDANCING WITH DESIREBrigette O'Hare - photographer and graphic designer by day, burlesque performer by night - is in New Orleans to dance with a local burlesque troupe. Touring the city, she has an incredibly sensual encounter in a voodoo shop with the mysterious Henri Dauphine.Henri defines everything Bridgette doesn't trust she deserves: wildly sexy, old money, his own man, and crazy about her.She can't wrap her mind around why he ...

AN UNTAMED HEARTOlive Meeks is anything but. Quiet – yes. Shy – sort of. Yet underneath beats a heart filled with hope and promise.Which is why she accepts the challenge and applies for one of the open positions with Burlesque A La Mode. No surprise she's really good at it and becomes a darling burlesque baby.But...Vic Thornton is the owner of the Speakeasy, where the troupe performs, and weeks before, she literally crashed into him. Well, her bicycle hit the truck ...

ORIGIN STORY REVEALEDEli's childhood trauma was no garden-variety nightmare. His is a story no one should have to live through. And while his sister keeps reaching out, he can't find it in him to make a solid connection. He's broken, and probably beyond repair.Chris has found his home at Burlesque A La Mode, and it becomes his solace after leaving a long-term relationship. When he meets Eli, something permanent is the last thing he's after, but he's never met someone so ali...

DIVINE RETRIBUTIONEveryone has secrets. Especially a Navy SEAL. But Spencer has found the one man who seems to be hiding more than him. And that just doesn't fly.Rick reinvented his life fifteen years ago, and has no intention of revealing why. But, in the back of his mind he's been waiting for the other shoe to fall, and now it has.Certain he has to get far, far away from the former Navy SEALS who make up LH Investigations, Rick learns they take loyalty and friends...

THIS IS A STANDALONE NOVELART IMITATES LIFESeven feet tall, Carlos Fernandez is a famous artist who's been in self-imposed exile. His size, and the scar around his neck from a garrote attempt, has him looking so scary people stare, make rude remarks, or challenge him to fights.He decides to move to LA to live near his brother at whose wedding he meets Clay Everett, an LAPD officer with hyper-protective instincts.What starts as a shaky friendship turns into s...

STRADDLING THE LAWIn the not what he expected column, Brad Williams is shocked when LAPD Captain Eric Meyers shows an interest. Tempting…but, no. While Brad might be working at The Gates, and seems all law-abiding, in his former life he was a cat-burglar, and Eric knows it. There's no point in starting something that won't go anywhere, especially since Brad's sure all the captain's feeling is residual gratitude that Brad took a bullet for him. Yet, what they learn about each other ...

GOING IT ALONEToo many ghosts live inside James Masterson's head, and they weren't the company he sought. Actually, he prefers no one's company, but he finds himself surrounded by overly friendly, meddlesome types while visiting his brother at The Gates in DTLA. Somehow, James becomes the unwelcome subject of Detective Richard Ross's attention, and, before he knows how it happened, James is caught up in Ross's family drama. When a madman tries to kill Ross's sister and her daughter...

COURTING DISASTERNothing in Joey Tall's life is for real. Not his name, the background he supplied to his bosses at The Gates, or the energy and good health he exudes. None of it is true. And no one can ever know what's really going on. Ever. Unpacking his secrets would truly end his life. Insult to injury, the incredibly handsome LAPD officer who's been hitting on Joey is a dream come true. But no way in hell is he letting a cop into his life. He doesn't have a death wish, and tem...

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEWhen Sawyer Hudson has a run-in with the mercurial executive chef at The Gates where Sawyer works as a dishwasher, he's certain he's going to lose his job. For anyone that would be horrible. For Sawyer it's a death sentence for the person he loves most in the world: his disabled brother.Award-winning world-renowned executive chef, Alexander Larsen, has time for his kitchen, his culinary creations, and little else. As a member of a family known for its we...